Check-row planter



(No Model.)

- M. E. JOHNSON.

, A CHECK ROWPLANTER. No. 288,444. Patented Nov. 13,4883.

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' UNITED Starts MILES E. JoHNsoN, on PALMER, ILLINOIS.

CH EcK-aow PLANTER.V

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,444, dated November 13, 1883.

Application filed June 14,1853. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that I, MILES E; JOHNSON, a

. citizen of the United States, residing at Palmer,

in the county of Christian and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Row Planters, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawlngs. I

This invention relates to certain improvements in seed-planters; and it has for its objects to provide for marking or checking the rows at proper intervals, and also to provide an improved brake in combination with such machines, as more fully hereinafter specified. These objects I attain by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a. front elevation of a seed-planter, showing my invention applied thereto; Fig. 2, a vertical sectional view of a detached portion of the same. Fig. 3 inindicates a detached side elevation of one of the seed-hoppers and the adjustable supporting-hanger, and Fig. 4 a detached view of certain brake mechanism forming part of my invention. I v

In the drawings, the letter A indicates the seed hoppers, which are mounted upon atrans verse connecting-beam, B, and are connected together at their tops by means of a shorter beam, 0. At the rear parts of the seedhoppers arelocatedguides D, in which are secured, by means of set-screws, the adjustable hangers E, which are provided with boxes F, in which the shaft Gis journaled. The shaft, atieach end, has mounted on it the wheels H,

which are provided with check-row markers I, extending to each side ofthe periphery and beyond the same, being braced thereto, by means of angle-irons K, as indicated. It will be seenthat by this construction the markers will be pressed into thesoil as the wheelsrotate, in order to mark it off at proper interby means of which the seeds are dropped at proper intervals from the hoppers, the dropper being so arrangedas to drop the corn where the marker on the wheel returning in its own track is directly over the mark made by the marker on the wheel in going over the ground before. The cam-wheels may be secured to the shaft by set-screws passing through the hubs, so that they can be ad justed to make the dropper and the markers work properly in relation to each-other.

The letter S indicates a brake-wheel, which is adjustably secured to the shaft by means of setscrews, so that it can be adjusted in any desired position along the shaft.

The letter T indicates a lever provided with metallic plates U, which are perforated and set loosely upon the shaft at each side of the brake-wheel. The said lever has a brace, V which bears against the beam when the lever is in place, and the lever is also provided with two standards, W, between which is fu1- crumed a lever, X, having a curved arm, Y,

extending under the brake-wheel and adapted to bear against it. The free end of the lever X extends between the standards W, se-

cured to the lever T, and between the two levers is located a spring, A, which keeps the I erate substantially in the manner and for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MILES n. JOHNSON. f

Witnesses: I

MELLE WILLIAt Is; J. O. MOBBIDE. 

